Bowcombe

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Bowcombe
Hampshire
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Bowcombe
Location
Grid reference: SZ468868
Location: 50°40’47"N, 1°20’20"W
Data
Post town: Newport
Postcode: PO30
Dialling code: 01983
Local Government
Council: Isle of Wight
Parliamentary
constituency:
Isle of Wight

Bowcombe is a hamlet on the Isle of Wight in Hampshire, in the middle of the island, two and a half miles miles south-west of Newport.[1]

Geography

The hamlet gives its name to the nearby Bowcombe Down and 2,000-acre Bowcombe View Shooting Ground. The down is home to a listed historical site that contains a Bronze Age barrow and an Anglo-Saxon cemetery.[2]

History

Bowcombe is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086: at the time it had 60 households, which was very large for a settlement at the time, with a total value of £20 in 1066.[3]

In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson said of the village in the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales:

"Bowcombe vale, around it, formerly displayed much beauty, but has suffered by destruction of its wood."

His account records that to the west there are traces of a Roman road and that it "commands a rich and extensive view." At the time it had a population of 93.[4]

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References

  1. "Bowcombe, Isle of Wight". https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/local/bowcombe-isle-of-wight. 
  2. National Heritage List 1015624: A Bronze Age barrow and Anglo-Saxon cemetery on Bowcombe Down, 575m south-east of Apesdow (Scheduled ancient monument entry)
  3. Bowcombe in the Domesday Book
  4. "History of Bowcombe, in Hampshire". GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth.